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It’s always significant whenever Annie’s infiltrating Russian territory — a large part of the Season 3 canon for Annie Walker involved her sneaking into Russia in order to take down Lena Smith, her former mentor and Simon Fischer’s murderer. Annie’s been a known target to the Russians (and especially the FSB, their espionage arm) ever since.

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Sydney/Stephanie finally makes her way into the CIA (as a red badge, of course!) and gets to see Calder in action. The writers knew it was important for Sydney/Stephanie to, at some point, see Calder when he’s at his most professional.

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The basement of the destroyed apartment complex in this episode was actually built from scratch by our incredible Art Department led by our Production Designer, Rocco Matteo — we think you’ll all agree, it’s certainly some of Rocco’s best work for our series! That basement is creeeeeeepy.

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Episode 514 also sees the return of Natasha Petrovna, one half of Auggie’s love triangle(/quadrangle?) from earlier in the season. It’s a tad disconcerting that Belenko knew who to capture in order to break Auggie, right? Liane Balaban and Christopher Gorham’s chemistry and their characters’ relationship evolved earlier this season and the entire production was in awe of both of the actors’ intense torture scenes on set.

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Everyone involved with this episode knew that the final act was going to be something really special. Annie and Auggie have been on-and-off again with their professional and personal relationship this season, but it was so special to see these two characters embrace at the end. Kari, Peter, Hill, and Dylan’s reactions back at the DPD were all extremely additive to the feeling of loss as well before the reveal that Auggie and Natasha made it out alive!